Wooden mallet

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A wooden mallet or pestle carved from a single piece of wood. The tool is bell-shaped with the top that gradually widens from the shoulder to a flat, blunt, rounded striking end. There is a groove just below the shoulder and, below the groove, the wood narrows into a thin handle. The handle widens slightly at the center and has a rounded knob. There are cracked, white accretions on the handle just below the shoulder, at the base of the knob, and on the striking surface.

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